Bed Bugs Chorley, Preston and Leyland.
One of the most feared and misunderstood pest insect species known to civilisation is the bed bug (Cimex lectularius). How many of us dropped off to sleep at night as youngsters with the parting words of our guardians in our ears “sleep tight and don’t let the bed bugs bite”?
Bed Bugs most probably started to dine on man at about the time we moved into caves, the bat bugs Cimex pilosellus and Cimex pipistrella mostly fed on bats and it is likely that bat feeding species of bed bus evolved to feed on man when our forebears started staying} in bat infested caves.
Up to the production of DDT in the early 20th century bed bugs were commonplace stowaways in most low quality homes.
The later years of the 20th century saw pest controllers called out to very few bed bug problems indeed, their presence being largely restricted to cheap holiday homes and student accomadation etc.
A lot of people mistake dust mites, which aren’t visible to the unaided eye, with bed bugs which deinitely.
Adult bedbugs are reddish brown, about a few milemetres in size and engorged after feeding on human blood.
Bed bugs regularly feed on our blood every seven to ten days, emerging in the hours before dawn and finding their target by detecting the exhaled carbon dioxide from human breath and when close in on their target, they sense body body heat.
Lacking a suitable human host to feed on they can lay in a period of dormancy for periods of up to a year or more.
Signs of a bed bug infestation are spots of blood on bed clothes and on the edges of mattresses and a lot of people can react badly to bed bug bites.
The early the 21st century has seen bed bug infestations growing all over the planet, the easy availability of overseas and economic migration have both been given as reasons for the resurgence.
What is positive is that that are now making a real fightback not only in poor quality housing but top class hotels, schools and even hospitals.
One London borough reports a doubling of bed bug reports every year from 1995 to 2001.
One night away in an infested premises is all it needs, they catch a ride in your suitcases or bags. Stretford Pest control companies are also now reporting cases of transport related bed bug infestations on all kinds of transport so a simple trip to work on an infested tube or train can be enough to spread the infestation to your own home.
They are an expensive pest to eradicate as contrary to popular belief they do not just live in beds. They infest any nook and cranny conveniently close to a sleeping human, beds, electrical sockets, televisions, bed side telephones etc and dealing with them is both difficult and time consuming. They have even been discovered found living under the toe-nails of infirm people and in the folds of flesh on very overweight people.
They are not a pest that can be dealt with by an amateur and a pest control professional will almost certainly be needed.
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